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When Do Migrants Shape Culture?
Bazzi, Samuel; Fiszbein, Martín - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
This chapter explores the impacts of migrants on the culture of their destinations. Migrants often assimilate to local social norms and practices, but they also tend to maintain their own culture. Sometimes, beyond preserving their culture, they influence their new neighbors. We propose a...
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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … natives. Finally, we find that it is unlikely that immigration's effect on agriculture slowed Brazil's structural …The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly …
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Immigration and Economic Growth
Borjas, George J. - 2019
Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few academic studies, however, examine the … direct link between immigration and growth. And the evidence on the outcomes that the literature does examine (such as the … what we know about the relationship between immigration and growth. The canonical Solow model implies that a one …
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Persecution and Migrant Self-Selection : Evidence from the Collapse of the Communist Bloc
Abramitzky, Ran; Baseler, Travis; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does persecution affect who migrates? We analyze migrants' self-selection out of the USSR and its satellite states before and after the collapse of Communism using census microdata from the three largest destination countries: Germany, Israel, and the United States. We find that migrants...
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Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435161
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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run : Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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Hell with the Lid Off : Racial Segregation and Environmental Equity in America's Most Polluted City
Banzhaf, H. Spencer; Mathews, William; Walsh, Randall P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study examines the relationship between racial segregation and environmental equity in Pittsburgh from 1910 to 1940. Utilizing newly digitized historical data on the spatial distribution of air pollution in what was likely America's most polluted city, we analyze how racial disparities in...
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Why Women Won
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
history I've compiled from 1905 to 2023, 45% occurred between 1963 and 1973. The greatly increased employment of women, the …
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Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China
Shiue, Carol H.; Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through the lens of a model of marriage matching and...
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Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux
Caiumi, Alessandro; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …
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